While hospital at home is becoming more common in the U.S., there are some who still believe that cancer is too severe a condition to care for in the home. Despite that, there are a number of cancer care at home programs and pilots in place right now, many of which are seeing success. “Just […]
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Cancer patients who receive hospital-at-home care are less likely to experience unplanned hospitalizations, new research suggests. Those individuals likewise account for lower health care costs. The new findings — focused on Huntsman at Home, a cancer hospital-at-home model operated by the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah — were published earlier this month […]
The health care sector is rushing toward the home to improve outcomes and lower costs. At-home cancer care lags behind other areas, but COVID-19 could be a major push to a new future for treatment and screenings. In 2020, the virus has disrupted traditional cancer care in several ways, including by delaying procedures originally scheduled […]
With spending projected to reach $173 billion by 2026, the home health industry is booming like never before. As such, a growing number of health care providers want a piece of the pie. To make it happen, they’re harnessing telehealth and partnerships with home-based care providers to enter the sector, according to a new home […]
To reduce costs to payers and improve outcomes for patients, more types of health care continue to move into the home. To further benefit patients, hospitals and payers, cancer treatment should be next, a recent article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology argues. While not common in the United States, home-based cancer treatment programs have […]
As a sales and marketing executive at Las Vegas-based In-House Home Health, Torrie Brizzie has long understood the value of in-home care. But it took her parents falling ill during a visit from the Midwest for her to explore the types of mobile urgent care services offered by a quickly growing startup — one of […]
In December, the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) launched a new program aimed at bringing hospital-level care into patients’ homes. The program allows patients to be discharged sooner and avoid costly emergency department visits. Dubbed “Huntsman at Home,” this initiative is the latest instance of health care’s shift to the home and the […]